>Why do people jump so easily from "lets build an efficient monitoring system" to terminators? Because every technology that can be effectively used to oppress

>Why do people jump so easily from "lets build an efficient monitoring system" to terminators? Because every technology that can be effectively used to oppress people has been. While you can't stop technological progress it's farcical to pretend that people trying to oppress people will not use all the technology at their disposal. You cannot get the good with the bad. If history is any indication I'm betting many people will have to get hurt by <thing> before society forms a consensus that it isn't ok to use <thing> to hurt people. It took WW1 to convince practically everyone that chemical weapons weren't worthwhile). It took the holocaust to get society to agree that genocide in developed nations (note the qualifier) is not ok. I'm not going to guess who will go down in history as the reason we don't build skynet but someone will likely have to before we stop building skynets.